How is this less of
: a stretch than my theory? I'm following Holmes
: here--eliminating the impossible and accepting what's
: left, however improbable. It may be completely of
: track, but until Myth III comes out it's the best I
: can do.
: --SiliconDream
You raise some excellent points and I really didn't mean to suggest that you should give up or discard your theory--what would become of the Asylum then?
How about this: we know that the Fallen are pretty damn tough. These guys survive being incinerated and blown up and generally turned to muck all the time. Let's say, for purposes of argument, that a Fallen Lord's head can survive a good five minutes of being seperated from its body (hell, some of them went a lot longer than that...). This gives the Heron Guard hero plenty of time to run in, look up into an aerial camera and scream "Nooooo.... Myrdred, we hardly knew ye!" and then, realizing he's running out of time, heal as much of the Deceiver's body as he can find (one root can bring you back from .00001 vitality, after all)--this probably still wouldn't be enough to give you a whole Deceiver, of course, but it might be just paramedic action--the heroes could then get the patchwork D back to Muirthemne in a LifeFlight Baloon and drop him off at Heron Presbyterian Hospital. Heck, the Heron Guard have been treating battlefield injuries for over two thousand years (how long has OUR western medicine been running wound clinics? Less than a hundred) so they must know a little something about microsurgery. You get five or six HG in a room chanting and throwing roots around, that's some powerful healin', right there. Voila, one whole Deceiver, with a real obligation to the light and one massive case of insurance abuse. Good thing "Do Not Resuscitate" orders don't seem to have caught on with the Myth judicial system.
Okay, this requires some faith, just like every other theory. However, I think it works a little better since it requires nothing we don't see in the game--there is a Heron Guard Hero on call, the head is still intact, we know that heads survive decapitation pretty well, etc. I think it works... let me know what you think.
